How much will you pay?
If the new Radiohead album had been released normally as a cd, I probably wouldn’t have thought twice about burning it off a friend. The option of getting it off a friend remains with this new digital release but now I feel compelled to download my own copy. It has caused me to think about the value of music itself and the value of a cd including booklet and atrwork etc.. If I did buy it, I probably would have paid $20-25 to buy the cd at a shop, but would I pay that much just for a download? ok, so take away the price of the booklet, the lyrics and the case itself. Then take away the satisfaction of having the case sitting in my cd rack. So now its around $5-10. Does that seem cheap when you consider the effect this new album may have on my life? The months of work behind it? Not to mention musical genius.
Nevertheless, I love the idea of cutting all the middle men involved in releasing a cd. I also love that the critics don’t get it before we do. So for this and for simply making me think, I’ll pay 5 extra dollars. So that’s $15 from me Radiohead.
